If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists 
chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps
it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately 
on all sides.
	- Theodor Reik

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply 
that all who are laughed at are geniuses.  They laughed at 
Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright 
brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. 
	- Carl Sagan

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving 
in an unhabitual way.
	-William James

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
	- Larry Leissner

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into 
old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
      - Aldous Huxley

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
	- Seneca

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and 
I speak like a child.
	- Vladimir Nabokov

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole 
to its part.
	- Jean de la Bruyere

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
    - Vladamir Nabokov

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
	- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
	- Anthony Hope

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
	- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. 
Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
      - Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English poet

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation 
as the dog does.
	- Christopher Morley

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of
uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
        - Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Works of genius are the first things in the world.
        - John Keats (1795-1821)

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
        - C. W. Ceran

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
        - Josiah Gilbert Holland
 
People think it must be fun to be a super genius,
but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with
all the idiots in the world.
        - Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and 
more violent.  It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage
--to move in the opposite direction.
        - Ernst F. Schumacher

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
        - Simone de Beauvoir

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the 
opening of new frontiers.
        - Arthur Koestler

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new 
questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
        - H. R. Trevor-Roper

Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man 
sees one.
        - Ezra Pound

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
        - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
        - F. Scott Fitzgerald

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate 
response to a great challenge
        - Bette Greene

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, 
less by assimilation than by fiction.
        -  Heinrich Heine

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
        - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its 
limits.
        - Albert Einstein

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